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About 5 years ago, I figured out that the opening riff to Bush, "Machinehead" is a perfectly efficacious mental disinfectant and prophylactic against earworms.
I regularly get "Mi cielito lindo" which you probably know better as "Waltz me around by my Willie" stuck in my head, and thinking the opening riff from "Machinehead" clears it right out (sometimes taking several applications). The lovely think is that the riff doesn't hang around (much) after use.
Lately I have had Johnny Clegg & Juluka's "Impi" stuck in my head. The problem is that I don't know all the words so I can't just play it through and dispel it that way, and yet it is poignant and entertaining enough that I have not resorted to the scorched earth policy with Bush.
As I occasionally find slight entertainment in inconsequential cruelty, I prefer to give people earworms. I find that Weird Al's "White & Nerdy" to be dreadfully persistent in the unprepared ear. (He chuckled sinisterly.)
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